A guide to game shows for the nine days commencing Saturday 24 June 2006

Schedules subject to change.

We have to pretend to be a grown-up listings magazine this week, and offer Schedule A and Schedule B for much of this week. Showing our Midlands sensibilities, we decree that Schedule A is for matches going out on ATV (or whatever the independent network is calling itself), and Schedule B is for matches going out on the BBC.

Saturday 24 June

0900

BBC2

Mighty Truck O' Stuff

1010

CBBS

The Shiny Show (also 1610)

1400

CBBC

Raven New!

Series one, just in case there's anyone on the planet who hasn't seen it yet.

1430

CBBC

50/50 New!

1600

CITV

Eliminator

ITV announced this week that they'd stop making children's programmes. That's as in programmes aimed at children, rather than programmes made by children, of which there's an example in the next Week.

1655

MOR4

Scrapheap Challenge Top 10

1730

C4

Deal or No Deal

1900

ITV

Millionaire

Back to a full hour.

2035

RTE1

Fame and Fortune

2115

C4

Big Brother (S4C 2200)

Sunday 25

0930

CITV

Eliminator

1005

ITV2

Millionaire

1100

BBC1

Bargain Hunt

1204

Rad4

ISIHAC

Possibly the best round of One Song To The Tune Of Another this century.

1810

Mor4

Deal or No Deal

2030

Rad4

Absent Friends

Tony Hawks investigates characters on the radio who write letters, but never appear on air. His trail starts with a correspondent in North Wales.

2100

C4

Big Brother (S4C 2200)

Weekdays

0700

STYL

Bargain Hunt

1025

TV5M

La cible

1110

CBBS

The Shiny Show (also 1510)

1130

CBBC

Raven

1230

TV5M

Jeu New!

Exact details to be confirmed.

1300

MOR4

Countdown (approx time)

C4 episodes from 9 to 15 June.

1325

S4C

Deal or No Deal x2

1455

C4

Coach Trip (S4C 1800)

Concludes on Friday.

1530

C4

Countdown (S4C 1510 next day, C4 rpt about 58 hours later.)

Jan Ravens is appearing one hour too early.

1545

Rad4

Georgian Giants New!

What's a hugely successful television quiz host to do after your long-running show has been axed in favour of lessons in how not to handle a telephone? If you're William G. Stewart, you'll make a week-long series of short documentaries on sporting heroes of the 18th century.

1615

C4

RTS Daytime Programme Of The Year Deal or No Deal (Mor4 1810)

1715

BBC2

Weakest Link

1800

ITV

The Price is Right

Extra time on Mo, Tu, Fr afternoons may mean this show is dispensible.

2100

C4

Big Brother (S4C Mo 2230, Tu-We 2200, Th 2210)

Monday 26

1230

BBC7

ISIHAC (also 1930)

1330

Rad4

The Write Stuff

Henry James.

1500

ITV

Cash Cab New!

The first of a new series.

1605

BBC2

Bamzooki New!

It's also Matt's last day on Blue Peter. The fond farewell might have gone out only on the CBBC channel, which would have been just wrong.

1830

Rad4

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

Back to the Halifax, where the regulars are joined by (Schedule A) Rob Brydon (Schedule B) Sandi Toksvig (Schedule C) Samantha.

2100

LIV2

The Amazing Race

Spain.

Tuesday 27

1230

BBC7

The News Quiz (also 1930)

1500

ITV

Cash Cab

1605

BBC2

Bamzooki

1700

ITV

The Price is Right

2030

BBC4

Never Mind the Full Stops

2100

FTN

Crazy Drivers

2200

BBC2

University Challenge - The Repeats (NI 2320)

News v Writers from 2 Jan.

Wednesday 28

1230

BBC7

Whispers

1500

ITV

Cash Cab

No arguments, it's certainly here.

1605

BBC2

Bamzooki

2300

Rad4

All The Way From Memphis

Thursday 29

1230

BBC7

Just a Minute (also 1930)

1600

S4C

Mama Mia

1605

BBC2

Bamzooki

2100

C4

Big Brother (S4C 2210)

2200

BBC2

Mastermind (not 2W)

Bruce Springsteen, The Titanic, Mary Secole, and the ultimate in small subjects, 20th Century Liechtenstein.

2230

BBC4

Never Mind the Full Stops

Jilly Cooper, Paddy O'Connell, Marina Hyde, Simon Fanshawe.

Friday 30

1500

ITV

Cash Cab

1800

ITV

The Price is Right

2030

C4

Big Brother (also S4C)

Continues 2200.

2130

C4

8 out of 10 Cats (S4C 0005)

Saturday 1 July (provisional)

Schedules A and B for this date are yet to be confirmed.

0900

BBC2

Mighty Truck O' Stuff

1000

CBBS

The Shiny Show (also 1600)

1400

CBBC

Raven

1430

CBBC

50/50

1600

CITV

Eliminator

1745

C4

Deal or No Deal

1915

ITV

Millionaire

2035

RTE1

Fame and Fortune

2100

C4

Big Brother

2130

BBC2

QI

2216

TV5M

Fort Boyard New!

Which may or may not yet make it to air.

Sunday 2 (provisional)

0930

CITV

Eliminator

1020

ITV2

Millionaire

1100

BBC1

Bargain Hunt

1120

CBBS

The Shiny Show (also 1720)

1204

Rad4

ISIHAC

1400

CBBC

Raven

1430

CBBC

50/50

1810

Mor4

Deal or No Deal

2100

C4

Big Brother

Phew. The good news is that, after 1 July, only two more days suffer from Schedule A / Schedule B, and it's only the evenings that are affected.